Under these circumstances, what should we be watching? What can we be watching? Where might the threats emerge? As far as I can tell, nobody has actually seriously thought about where this is headed and how we need to prepare for it. Nobody has asked questions in this country about whether what is being delivered on cyber to the government in terms of intelligence and strategic intelligence is actually what the government needs. As far as I can tell, the priorities for the government are not well aligned with the sort of products the government actually receives from some of its agencies, for instance.
Also, I think that we in this country have a serious challenge in terms of our overall capability. Every week I get a call from someone who asks me, “Christian, we just got authorized to hire 20 new people to help us on our cybersecurity front. Can you give me some names of some folks we could hire?” These people do not exist. The government has not thought systematically about how we generate the research capacity, how we generate the HQP, the highly qualified personnel, to make sure we can actually provide for Canada what Canada needs to be competitive and safe.
You've probably heard this expression, often referred to as “phase two”. “Phase two” means it's not just about cybersecurity; it's Industry Canada now also thinking about.... It's that if we can't keep the investments that people make in Canada and in intellectual property safe and protected, then people are not going to put their money into Canada. They're going to put it into Australia or into Israel or into the Netherlands, countries that have a strategy to protect their intellectual property. We're going to be seriously left behind in terms of our prosperity.
I think that in the current environment, we need to make sure we're competitive. We have one province that actually has a somewhat coordinated strategy, and that's New Brunswick. As far as I can tell, in the other provinces, it's—